What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin

1. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Attempt To Hide Their Sin: • Adam & Eve in the garden - Gen. 3:9-10 • Natural reaction; try to hide from God & others • Like a child • Knowing it has done wrong • But not knowing just what to do about it

2. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Attempt To Hide Their Sin: • Many reasons people attempt to hide sin? • Know it is displeasing to God. Know it is not right. Don't want others to see it. • Do not attempt to hide what is right - Jn. 3:21 • Darkness symbol of evil - Rom. 3:12-13; Jn. 3:19-20

3. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Attempt To Hide Their Sin: • Many reasons people attempt to hide sin? • Sense of guilt, fear - Gen. 3:10b. • Disrupts the relation with God, causes to try to hide from Him • Guilt prevents approach to God - Isa. 59:2

4. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Attempt To Hide Their Sin: • Many reasons people attempt to hide sin? • Do not want to be exposed to shame • Recognition that guilty means realize wrong, shouldn't have done it • Adam ashamed of nakedness - Gen. 3:10

5. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Attempt To Hide Their Sin: • Cannot hide sin (Num. 32:23). Not do so and prosper (Prov. 28:13) • Just as when we plant a garden, everyone will know what we planted when it sprouts and grows • Our "seed" (sin) will germinate, reveal what we have planted - Gal. 6:7-8

6. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Boast Of Their Sin: • Judah of old (Isa. 3:9 NAS; Jer. 8:12) • Commentary on modern society: (Few years ago, movie advertised as being "Banned In 34 Nations, But To Be Shown Uncensored!”)

7. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Boast Of Their Sin: • Some boast as a defense • Know sin is known to others, think if boast about sin it will turn attention away from the practice. • Such feel the need to defend their actions. (Consider homosexual community.).

8. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Boast Of Their Sin: • To attract attention • Have to do something "big" to be noticed • Such are "emotional cripples."

9. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Deny Their Sin: • Sarah (Gen. 18:15). Laughed in unbelief at promise of the angel. • A child, not knowing how to cope with situation, consequences is empted to deny actions. • Tendency remains in adults; use different methods to deny.

10. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Deny Their Sin: • Some deny to rationalize a false doctrine (see 1 Jn. 1:8).

11. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Deny Their Sin: • By saying practice is not sin: “Label Changing” • Make allowance for self: “Not lying, stealing; just being 'shrewd'.” • Socially accepted; or “everybody is doing it.”

12. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Deny Their Sin: • Deny existence of sin • Modern psychological approach to guilt • "Christian Science" denies existence of sin, sickness, death

13. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some "Feed" Their Sin: • Psa. 64:5 • Some practices considered so "precious" that they cannot forsake them

14. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • Some Share Their Sins: - 1 Tim. 5:22. • Use influence to entice others, involve them in sin - Prov. 1:10; Matt. 18:7 • By "pressure" tactics • "Everybody is doing it.“ • 1 Pet. 4:4

15. What Men Attempt To Do With Their Sin • All Should Repent, Confess, Forsake Sin: • Job 33:27-28 • Only honest, responsible thing to do. Results in good for person. • Mercy promised to one who confesses, forsakes sin - Prov. 28:13; 1 Jn. 1:9